PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 RESULTS CATALOGUE perthroyalfoodawards.raswa.org.au 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 1 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE The Perth Royal Wine Awards are Western Australia’s premium wine competition, overseen by a prestigious team of WA, interstate and international judges. Wine has been judged at the Perth Royal Show since 1843 and the competition is regarded as critical to the success of establishing a national and even international reputation for the WA wine industry. Wine entries 1765 AWA INE RD W S 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE 3 ADVANCED WINE JUDGES SCHOLARSHIP The Royal Agricultural Society of WA (RASWA) is pleased to offer the Advanced Wine Judges Scholarship (value $4680) in recognition of John Hanley AO and his contribution to the Perth Royal Wine Awards over 43 continuous years. The Advanced Wine Assessment Course (AWAC) is an intensive four-day course designed for participants with considerable formal wine tasting experience. It aims to prepare potential new wine show judges and develop the sensory analysis capabilities and the vocabulary of Australian wine industry personnel at an elite level. Course to be held in Adelaide, SA Please note travel and accommodation to Adelaide, SA is the responsibility of the selected applicant. CLOSING DATE - FRIDAY 30 AUGUST 2019 WINE INDUSTRY SCHOLARSHIP The Royal Agricultural Society of WA (RASWA) is pleased to offer the Wine Industry Scholarship in recognition of Bill Jamieson for his contribution to RASWA and the development of the WA wine industry. The scholarship will provide financial assistance for up to two years to a student undertaking tertiary study in a wine related discipline to help support their career in the wine industry. Please note applicants must have already successfully completed at least one year of the relevant course. CLOSING DATE - FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2020 For more information on either of our scholarships contact Alaric Korb on [email protected] or 6263 3100 or check our website at raswa.org.au 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 4 RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE The Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors for their donations and trophies to be awarded throughout the 2019 Perth Royal Wine Awards. The 2nd Friday Club, established in 1977 to learn about and enjoy good wine. MarketingData:PrintedMaterials:2017:Wine Show:Links:Logos_for_Wine:2nd Friday of the Month.docx 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 5 AWA INE RD W S The Royal Agricultural Society of WA (RASWA) expresses its sincere thanks to our entrants of the 2019 Perth Royal Wine Awards and wishes them every success in the future. Paul Carter President, RASWA Peter Cooper CEO, RASWA Senior Competition and Event Coordinator Jodie Spirek (08) 6263 3100 | [email protected] Competition and Event Coordinator Kellie Clements (08) 6263 3100 | [email protected] Perth Royal Wine Awards Committee Councillor in Charge John Snowball Committee Members Arch Kosovich, Glenn Goodall, Courtney Treacher, Bill Keane, Marie Redman, Tony Devitt, Don Chipper Perth Royal Food Awards Committee Councillor in Charge Dr. Jo Pluske Councillor Natasha Atkinson, Dr. Catherine Bowen, Joanne Bradbury, Bill Keane, Andrew Williams 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 6 RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 7 Kim Bickley has been referred to as one of the top Sommeliers in the country. Having previously worked at award winning restaurants Glass Brasserie (Hilton Sydney) and Black by Ezard (The Star Sydney). Moving to ‘the other side’ of wine sales, she became a wine educator, teaching WSET wine courses for Lion Beverages/ FWP as well as being the brand ambassador for Bollinger Champagne and Henschke wines. Most recently Kim has relocated to the picturesque Hunter Valley and is working alongside her partner and one of the Hunter’s top producers, Thomas Wines. A CMS Certified Sommelier, who finished in the top eleven students who were certified by the Court of Master Sommeliers in Australia in 2008; Kim is also a wine show judge, a Len Evans and Sommeliers Australia Tutorial Scholar and was the first, of only two Australians in the International ‘Landmark Australia’ Tutorial 2010. In 2015 she attended AWRI’s Advanced Wine Assessment Course and is now the newest member of the Wine Selectors Tasting Panel. 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 8 RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 9 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 10 RESULTS CATALOGUE 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE 11 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 12 RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE Foni Pollitt Andrew Dawson Kim Tyrer Kristen McGann Eloise Jarvis William Roser Alexander Schulz Brigitte Rodda Rachael Davenport Jen Doyle 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 13 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 14 RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE 15 me used to the camera and I worked with Channel 10 for about a year, gradually improving and growing in confidence. Many years later, Guru Productions got in touch and I had the chance to work with ‘Our State on a Plate’ and Delish’, where I was talking up WA produce and discovering new food producers. I was in my element. I really enjoy broadcasting. It’s a wonderful platform for spreading the word about all this state has to offer. It’s all about getting the message out there and helping support our farmers, growers and producers. You come from a farming background yourself. Do you still feel at home in the paddock as well as the kitchen? Absolutely. It’s probably where I feel most at home. My Mum and Dad were dairy farmers and I would get to drive around with my Dad getting to see farming and agriculture up close. Farming can be a really tough job sometimes and as a farming family there were no weekends, no days off. It was seven days a week, 365 days a year – milking in the morning and evening, moving herds from place to place. It gave When listing prominent advocates of WA food and drink, there are few finer me a real respect for the producers I examples than that of Russell Blaikie. The chef and partner of Must Winebar in work with, as well as the ability to tell a Perth’s bustling suburb of Highgate, Russell’s passion for quality and respect for good producer from a bad one. the ingredients underpins everything that he plates up in his 170 cover restaurant. It also gives you respect for the As a star of Channel 9’s ‘Our State on a Plate’ and ‘Delish’, Russell has brought ingredients, and most importantly his enthusiasm for great produce to a wide audience and has been actively seasonality. You learn quickly that the involved in the 2019 Perth Royal Food Awards programme, both as a judge lamb is always better when it has been and in celebrating the contribution of WA’s dairy producers as part of the 2019 feeding on the green spring grass; the broadcast media launch. plums from the kitchen garden ripen in the warmer months and the citrus fruits taste that bit sweeter in the You’re a familiar face to WA This must have landed on the desk cooler months. television viewers. How did your TV of Channel 10, who were just dipping As a chef, it’s given me the confidence to work first come about? their toe into programming for Western look up from the kitchen bench and see It was all somewhat of a happy Australia. They invited me for an what’s about at any particular time of accident! interview about it and – being a rather year. I hate seeing asparagus on menus cocky young chef – I asked if they in summer, because it means it’s not needed someone to do a cooking I happened to have a picture in the seasonal and its certainly not local. Sunday Times. The story was that segment on the programme. To my I had found a small patch of morel surprise, they jumped at the chance Do you have a particularly early and before I knew it, I was in front of mushrooms growing wild in my back memory of cooking on the farm? the camera! garden and I had very excitedly called I remember standing on a chair next to my mother and helping her to cook Bill Thompson, who wrote the food To be completely honest, I was terrible! mushrooms in a big pot on top of a wood column for the paper at the time. I had no idea what I was doing; but it got burning stove. These were the same 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 2019 PERTH ROYAL WINE AWARDS 16 RESULTS CATALOGUE RESULTS CATALOGUE FOOD AND WINE mushrooms that we would pick from weren’t many places doing that casual in. I wanted Must to be a place where the paddock in winter and they would Parisian style drinking and dining setup. friends could meet up and share good go straight into the pot. food and good wine, or where someone I was dead set against creating a ‘food could just stumble across it as they’re The biggest, juiciest mushrooms temple’.